Proposed Redondo Beach budget balanced with pay cuts
City Manager Bill Workman this week introduced his proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year, a budget that for the third consecutive year depends on employee wage concessions in order to meet a gaping deficit. Workman’s proposed budget addresses a $3.8 million deficit largely through a proposed $2.8 million in savings that would be realized through an ongoing, six percent rollback in all city employee salaries. Workman praised employees for their collaboration, noting that city staff has been reduced from over 500 employees to 435 during the course of the economic recession. “Our employees, in much smaller numbers, are highly effective,” Workman told the City Council on Tuesday night. “I’ll match our employees with any, in the private sector or the public sector, for their ability to get their work done.” The City Manager said that it was his intention to balance the budget without laying off any employees, despite the slow pace of economic recovery statewide and locally. In order to do so, the budget proposes pulling $1 million from a special $2.5 million “set aside” fund the Council previously established in order to make increasingly large contributions to the California…
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